The & Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982315600 ISBN 13: 9780982315606

Publisher: Lake Forest College, 2011

Synopsis

This inaugural volume of "The &Now Awards" recognizes the most provocative, hardest-hitting, deadly serious, patently absurd, cutting-edge, avant-everything-and-nothing work from the years 2004-2009. "The &Now Awards" features writing as a contemporary art form: writing as it is practiced today by authors who consciously treat their work as an art, and as a practice explicitly aware of its own literary and extra-literary history. This work is as much about its form, materials, and language, as it about its subject matter. The &Now conference - moving from the University of Notre Dame (2004), Lake Forest College (2006), Chapman University (2008), and the University at Buffalo (2009) - sets the stage for this aesthetic, while "The &Now Awards" features work from the wider world of innovative publishing and serves as an ideal survey of the contemporary scene.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Archambeau is co-director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books and a professor of English at Lake Forest College. Davis Schneiderman is co-director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books and a professor of English at Lake Forest College. Steve Tomasula is the founder of &NOW and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lake Forest College
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982315600
• ISBN 13: 9780982315606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Archambeau Robert, Schneiderman Davis, Tomasula Steve